Biography of Stephen Osborn, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames listed: Osborn, Coleman.

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Transcribed by: W. David Samuelsen

An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 
1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. 

page 242

Stephen OSBORN

The birth of Mr. Osborn was on January 8, 1847, near Milan, Sullvian county, 
Missouri, his parents being Hiram and Drusilla Osborn. One year after his 
birth he was taken by his parents to Grundy county in the same state and
there he remained until he was fifteen years of age, receiving meanwhile his 
educational training in the public schools of that county. When he had arrived
to that interesting age of fifteen years he accompanied his father across the 
plains, making the entire journey with ox teams and the following year, 1863, 
he settled on the place where we find him at the present time, eight miles west
from Baker City; the remainder of the family, the father and son, followed in 
1864. His farm is well improved with substantial buildings, and thrift and 
taste are manifested throughout; while in addition to this place he owns about 
twelve hundred acres of hay and farming land, which also is well improved and 
tilled. He feeds every winter about five hundred head of cattle, being one of 
the leading stockmen of the county. He affiliates with the I.O.O.F., Wingville 
Lodge, NO. 69, and is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, 
where he is well esteemed and a prominent figure, being an ardent supporter
of his faith both by precept and practical exemplification of the principles 
of Christianity.

Mr. Osborn and Miss Lettie, daughter of John W. and Mary Coleman, were married
in Wingville on March 2, 1871, and the fruit of this union is nine children, 
six of whom are at home, their names being as follows: Orin, Pearl, Beulah, 
Jessie, Rowena, Louis. The three eldest, George, Homer and John, died with the
diphtheria. 
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